“Everyone’s on my side now,” Trump told advisers this summer. “They were fighting me last time.”
He was talking a bout the business community but he might as well have been talking about the Republican party:
Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.
I think that’s right. In fact, I think we should call the GOP Congress The Duma from now on. That’s what it is and the members are totally fine with it.